Excerpts: 'I Look Forward to the Debate'

Sen. Clinton on Her Health Proposal,
The Need for Reform, and Consensus

Updated Sept. 19, 2007 11:59 p.m. ET

Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D., N.Y.) spoke with The Wall Street Journal's Laura Meckler Tuesday about her health plan for covering the uninsured. The proposal, estimated to cost $110 billion a year, would allow people satisfied with their current coverage to keep it and allow businesses and individuals to seek new coverage from a menu of health plans modeled on that offered federal employees. Below, see edited excerpts...